US4374302A - Arrangement and method for generating a speech signal - Google Patents
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- US4374302A US4374302A US06/216,000 US21600080A US4374302A US 4374302 A US4374302 A US 4374302A US 21600080 A US21600080 A US 21600080A US 4374302 A US4374302 A US 4374302A
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- G—PHYSICS
- G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
- G10L—SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
- G10L13/00—Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
- G10L13/02—Methods for producing synthetic speech; Speech synthesisers
- G10L13/04—Details of speech synthesis systems, e.g. synthesiser structure or memory management
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NL8000361 | 1980-01-21 | ||
NL8000361A NL8000361A (en) | 1980-01-21 | 1980-01-21 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A VOICE SIGNAL |
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US4374302A true US4374302A (en) | 1983-02-15 |
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US06/216,000 Expired - Fee Related US4374302A (en) | 1980-01-21 | 1980-12-12 | Arrangement and method for generating a speech signal |
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US (1) | US4374302A (en) |
JP (1) | JPS56106300A (en) |
DE (1) | DE3101590C2 (en) |
FR (1) | FR2474217A1 (en) |
GB (1) | GB2068695B (en) |
NL (1) | NL8000361A (en) |
Cited By (6)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US4520502A (en) * | 1981-04-28 | 1985-05-28 | Seiko Instruments & Electronics, Ltd. | Speech synthesizer |
US5133010A (en) * | 1986-01-03 | 1992-07-21 | Motorola, Inc. | Method and apparatus for synthesizing speech without voicing or pitch information |
US5495556A (en) * | 1989-01-02 | 1996-02-27 | Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Corporation | Speech synthesizing method and apparatus therefor |
US5774837A (en) * | 1995-09-13 | 1998-06-30 | Voxware, Inc. | Speech coding system and method using voicing probability determination |
US5802250A (en) * | 1994-11-15 | 1998-09-01 | United Microelectronics Corporation | Method to eliminate noise in repeated sound start during digital sound recording |
US6999920B1 (en) * | 1999-11-27 | 2006-02-14 | Alcatel | Exponential echo and noise reduction in silence intervals |
Families Citing this family (2)
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CA1201809A (en) * | 1982-04-28 | 1986-03-11 | Angela Druckman | Method of an apparatus for generating a plurality of electric signals |
DE3463306D1 (en) * | 1983-01-18 | 1987-05-27 | Matsushita Electric Ind Co Ltd | Wave generating apparatus |
Citations (4)
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US3588353A (en) * | 1968-02-26 | 1971-06-28 | Rca Corp | Speech synthesizer utilizing timewise truncation of adjacent phonemes to provide smooth formant transition |
US3641496A (en) * | 1969-06-23 | 1972-02-08 | Phonplex Corp | Electronic voice annunciating system having binary data converted into audio representations |
US3892919A (en) * | 1972-11-13 | 1975-07-01 | Hitachi Ltd | Speech synthesis system |
US4301329A (en) * | 1978-01-09 | 1981-11-17 | Nippon Electric Co., Ltd. | Speech analysis and synthesis apparatus |
Family Cites Families (1)
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US3573374A (en) * | 1968-01-25 | 1971-04-06 | Philco Ford Corp | Formant vocoder utilizing resonator damping |
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1980
- 1980-01-21 NL NL8000361A patent/NL8000361A/en not_active Application Discontinuation
- 1980-12-12 US US06/216,000 patent/US4374302A/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
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1981
- 1981-01-16 GB GB8101331A patent/GB2068695B/en not_active Expired
- 1981-01-19 FR FR8100896A patent/FR2474217A1/en active Granted
- 1981-01-20 DE DE3101590A patent/DE3101590C2/en not_active Expired
- 1981-01-21 JP JP657581A patent/JPS56106300A/en active Granted
Patent Citations (4)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US3588353A (en) * | 1968-02-26 | 1971-06-28 | Rca Corp | Speech synthesizer utilizing timewise truncation of adjacent phonemes to provide smooth formant transition |
US3641496A (en) * | 1969-06-23 | 1972-02-08 | Phonplex Corp | Electronic voice annunciating system having binary data converted into audio representations |
US3892919A (en) * | 1972-11-13 | 1975-07-01 | Hitachi Ltd | Speech synthesis system |
US4301329A (en) * | 1978-01-09 | 1981-11-17 | Nippon Electric Co., Ltd. | Speech analysis and synthesis apparatus |
Cited By (7)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US4520502A (en) * | 1981-04-28 | 1985-05-28 | Seiko Instruments & Electronics, Ltd. | Speech synthesizer |
US5133010A (en) * | 1986-01-03 | 1992-07-21 | Motorola, Inc. | Method and apparatus for synthesizing speech without voicing or pitch information |
US5495556A (en) * | 1989-01-02 | 1996-02-27 | Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Corporation | Speech synthesizing method and apparatus therefor |
US5802250A (en) * | 1994-11-15 | 1998-09-01 | United Microelectronics Corporation | Method to eliminate noise in repeated sound start during digital sound recording |
US5774837A (en) * | 1995-09-13 | 1998-06-30 | Voxware, Inc. | Speech coding system and method using voicing probability determination |
US5890108A (en) * | 1995-09-13 | 1999-03-30 | Voxware, Inc. | Low bit-rate speech coding system and method using voicing probability determination |
US6999920B1 (en) * | 1999-11-27 | 2006-02-14 | Alcatel | Exponential echo and noise reduction in silence intervals |
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NL8000361A (en) | 1981-08-17 |
DE3101590C2 (en) | 1986-03-13 |
JPS6237798B2 (en) | 1987-08-14 |
FR2474217A1 (en) | 1981-07-24 |
GB2068695B (en) | 1984-02-01 |
JPS56106300A (en) | 1981-08-24 |
FR2474217B1 (en) | 1984-03-16 |
GB2068695A (en) | 1981-08-12 |
DE3101590A1 (en) | 1982-01-14 |
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